Canadian Gardening: China coming uphas anyone been?, 1 by Chilko

Chilko wrote:
...a brown time of year, as I said. Tropical down south on Hainan, but still not a lot of flowers. Yangshou, still quite far south and home of those etherial dome shaped peaks, karst (limestone) formations was green but again, the flowers were only potted plants. In fact, everywhere we went, the large floral displays were all in 4" to 6" pots! See the attached picture--we didn't notice they spelled something in Chinese until we got home but given that it was Chinese New Year's, it was probably happy new year or some such.

Those ornamental cabbages are really big in China. At first I expected to see big chunks missing, eaten by the starving homeless...except, there didn't seem to BE any starving or homeless.

Will add bits and pieces about our 5 week trip as I get pics sorted (trouble with digital cameras; too easy to take pictures! Between Dave and me, about 1800.) and slowly try to assimilate the whole, huge experience.